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I tried it, got the block message, and then tried it with a Kansas City VPN just to see if it would work. It did.
I really liked the message though. Texas legislators are dumb af if they don't think that this is going to push people to use websites without ID requirements and less stringent rules on content creation/safety.
I mean, they were dumb af before this, but they're extra dumb now too.
Ironically, I just tried accessing PH with a VPN based in Dallas (I’m not in Texas) and got the normal site.
I wonder if they do it by ISP.
I always wonder how they do these types of blocks. Sure you can get a city from an IP record, mine reports me as several counties away.
Sometimes it’s a good thing that the boomers don’t know how the cyber works.
The thing is, there's hundreds, thousands, possibly millions of porn sites out there. There is no way any state is going to be able to block them all. Even if, by some miracle, they did manage to block them all - it won't matter, people will still just use a VPN anyway.